Philip Hughes Cause of Death

During a session of the Sheffield Shield match between South Australia and New South Wales at the Sydney Cricket Ground on November 25, 2014, Hughes, batting on 63 runs, was struck in the neck by the ball after missing an attempted hook shot to a bouncer from the South Wales bowler, Sean Abbott.

Philip collapsed before receiving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and was subsequently taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, where he underwent surgery and was placed into an induced coma

Hughes’ injury was a rare but described type of sport-related blunt force cerebrovascular called a vertebral artery dissection which led to subarachnoid haemorrhage.

On the morning of November 27, 2014, Hughes died from the injuries that he had two days earlier, three days before his 26th birthday.